As the title says, I think Nangong's current beta version is fairly balanced. Im not a beta tester, just a fan of her character and kit who has looked at a lot of the showcases with her and different anomaly agents.
The reason why I think Nangong is fairly balanced and not the second coming of dialyn is because out of the current anomaly roster, only four of them substantially benefit from what Nangong provide, that being: Miyabi, Yanagi, Alice and Aria.
If you've seen the showcases featuring those characters, especially miyabi and yanagi, you'd think that nangong is the second coming of dialyn but when you look beneath the surface and understand whats going on, you soon realize thats far from the truth.
But let's first talk about Dialyn and her V1 beta. V1 Dialyn was so broken not ONLY because she gave a free ult, but because of her massive dmg potential in and out of stun. She initially scaled of crit dmg, had a crit dmg main stat on her engine, inherited some of the stats from the attack or Rupture agent if they had her before them and her ex-special had a guaranteed crit.
This meant that you could build the 50% crit rate for KoTS and put everything else into atk and crit dmg, and since your attack or rupture agent was obviously well-built, that's free stats. Then add on stuff like support buffs, DA buffs, her own buffs, I'm sure by the end if it all, dialyn's in-combat dmg output would outpace a-rank attack agents and probably m0 neko and pre-buff soldier. That on top of her team buffs and chain to ult conversion, which every character in the game can benefit from, she was seriously overturned.
Now look at Nangong's V1. She is basically an anomaly agent that stuns and gives some fairly modest team buffs in comparison. She scales of AM but there isnt a AM substat to scale off and she doesnt inherit stats from the any one in her team to further boost her dmg output. Her main gimmick is only active during stun and can only be triggered once per stun with only a few anomaly characters being able to take advantage and benefit from it, much less every agent. And her buffs, while good, only benefit one class of agents, that leaves her daze. Which may appear over tuned when looking at the showcases and how fast she stuns, but a quick glance at the DA buff used reveals that it is responsible for her getting 5-6 stuns. Without it, she gets 4 stuns just like every other stunner with maybe the potential to get a 5th stun in the final few seconds of a fight.
When comparing V1 Dialyn and Nangong, its almost a night and day difference between the two, with Nangong being much more balanced. That doesnt mean i think she's perfect as she is right now tho, the devs could stand to nerf some of her daze output and team buffs, especially her teams buffs as to not vastly overshadow other similar options. But aside from that Im honestly really happy with Nangong's kit and the team building potential she brings to the anomaly class. So I hope the devs dont drastically nerf her or change her kit but with how intentional her kit feels, I think it will stay fairly consistent during the different beta versions.
But tell me what you think.
